All right, punk, I’ve been inflicting MAJOR pain on you all summer, so this week you get a break. It’s standard Sudoku time. You know the drill: fill in each square with a number 1–9 so that every row, column, and 3-x-3 box contains the numbers 1–9 exactly one time. And don’t get used to the easy life, junior. Next week’s puzzle is gonna be TOUGH!

Phantom tollbooth Was this going to be yet another instance of the Nintendo folks driving away their core audience in favor of the “casual gamers” market they covet so much?

Candyland “Hey! Do you like fake violence? Do you think you might like real violence even more? Good! Here’s a .50-caliber machine gun and some money for college.”

Guitar Hero gets a new developer On January 16, Neversoft, the video-game developers known primarily for the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise, posted a job opening for work on their latest project, Guitar Hero III , thereby inciting a stir in the video-game blogosphere.